‘Good teams push through’: Whitecaps continue points hunt vs. Portland Timbers
VANCOUVER — As Marc Dos Santos readies his Vancouver Whitecaps for a rivalry matchup this week, another task nags at the back of the coach’s mind.
Dos Santos still needs to find the perfect bottle of B.C. wine for Portland Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese.
The pair will meet for the first time in Major League Soccer on Friday, but they have a long competitive history dating back to their days as bench bosses in the North American Soccer League.
Savarese’s New York Cosmos won the league championship over Dos Santos’ Ottawa Fury FC in 2015. But in 2017, Dos Santos got revenge when his San Francisco Deltas beat the Savarese-led Cosmos to hoist the trophy.